
How do I figure out an individual Twitter status URL?I have been using Twhirl as my Twitter client and am pretty happy with it, but I'm baffled by one thing: recently someone sent me an email that included a URL on Twitter that took me to a page that had just a single tweet on it. How did they do that? A little known feature of Twitter is that each and every "tweet", or message sent on the system, has a unique identifying number and that if you know that number, you can actually construct a URL that shows just that one message on the page. The URLs look like this: http://twitter.com/FilmBuzz/statuses/862509661
The Twitter account in question is FilmBuzz and the unique status update ID is 862509661. But how did I figure that number out? Turns out that it's the time stamp on a Twitter message that links to the unique URL for that tweet, so in Twhirl, I clicked on the following:
As you can see, I'm going to click on the timestamp that says "about 7h ago", at which point Twhirl hands the URL to my Web browser, Flock, and I see:
The URL of that page tells me what I want to know, and I can now easily copy and paste that URL onto a Web page (like this!) or into an email message to some Beatles fans I know (or, perhaps, someone who is an Emerson, Lake and Palmer fan, one or the other). Hope that helps. It certainly isn't an intuitive path to get the answer!
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Never miss another useful Q&A article again! Subscribe to AskDaveTaylor with Google Reader. Thanks Dave. I was wondering how to do that. How do you come up with these great questions all the time? Posted by: Rob McNealy at July 19, 2008 9:03 PMGood post. This has to be one the most unclear features on Twitter. This works from TweetDeck too. Just doubleclick the time-stamp to open the page in your browser. Posted by: Sam Stone at April 16, 2009 1:22 AMThanks so much! I couldn't even find the answer in the Twitter help section! Posted by: Claire at May 23, 2009 3:14 PMThank you!! I was wondering how to figure that out... actually thought it would be more difficult, ha Posted by: Ali at October 17, 2009 2:03 PMpictures are fine but its allot better to put the tweet directly into the page and make it so users can interact and reply to it Posted by: Carter Cole at January 24, 2010 7:58 PMawesome. thanks Posted by: eighty at February 9, 2010 1:15 PMI have something to say, now that you mention it, but ...
I do have a comment, now that you mention it!
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